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Event
Introduction to Intimacy Direction with Claire Warden: A #HealMeToo Festival Workshop
PRESENTED:
Sunday 4/14 from 10am to 1pm
LENGTH OF WORKSHOP: 3 hours
At IRT Theater:
154 Christopher St. NYC (west of Hudson)
Buzzer 3B (third floor)
An introduction to the discipline of Intimacy Direction with Claire Warden, an international leader of the movement and part of the teaching team of Intimacy Directors International (IDI).
This workshop will teach you about the discipline of Intimacy Direction and the considerations required when creating and performing scenes of intimacy. You will learn consensual based working practices and open and empowering communication. You will learn to understand, communicate and advocate for your and fellow actors respect and safety, and how to facilitate an equitable, safe and creative environment for intimacy work.
Claire Warden is an intimacy director and coordinator, fight director, teacher and actress with over twenty years experience in theatre, TV and film across America and the UK. She is the Director of Engagement with Intimacy Directors International and a founding member of IDI - UK, and is co-leading the intimacy direction movement across America and the world. Claire consults for and intimacy coordinates on television networks, including HBO, as well as independent films. She will shortly be making history as the first intimacy director in a Broadway production for Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, with Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon. Off-Broadway, she was the intimacy and fight director of Slave Play (NYTW), Daddy (Vineyard/New Group) and the upcoming BLKS (MCC Theatre) as well as others both in New York and regionally.
Claire trains faculty & students in acting training institutions across the country, including Yale, NYU, Stella Adler, Cambridge University (UK), the ONeill Theatre Center, Muhlenberg College, Sarah Lawrence, HB Studios, UConn, Northeastern University, Sonoma State and is the Intimacy Consultant and Director at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has presented and given workshops for conferences and theatre communities on both sides of the Atlantic. She is also part of the teaching team of Intimacy Directors International, training the next generation of Intimacy Directors, Choreographers and Coordinators.
She is a faculty member of Shakespeare and Company, MA as fight and text teacher as well as a freelance choreographer and acting coach. Her movement training and extensive background in acting is coupled with her broad experience in working with directors and actors of all levels and backgrounds across the UK and America. Her focus, joy and purpose is empowering those she works with to achieve their full creative potential. She is deeply committed to serving the ensemble, advocacy for actors and supporting artists in their creative process. www.teamidi.org. www.clairewarden.com
Learn more about this event at: tinyurl.com/HM2intimacy
The #HealMeToo Festival is produced, in part, through Kori Rushton and IRT's Residency Season (irttheater.org) from March 25 through April 15, 2019.
PLEASE DONATE TO IRT THEATER
IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRTs mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work. Some of the artists we have supported include Young Jean Lee, Reggie Watts and Mike Daisey.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts and The Nancy Quinn Fund, a project of ART-NY.
PLEASE NOTE: All sales final and there is no late seating at IRT Theater.
***IRT is a fully wheelchair-accessible facility.***
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LocationIRT Theater (View)
154 Christopher Street #3B
New York, NY 10014
United States
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